Teacher unions and education policy retrenchment or reform? /

• Other Authors: Henderson, Ronald D., Urban, Wayne J., Wolman, Paul
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
• Series: Advances in education in diverse communities : research, policy and praxis ; v. 3.
• Subjects: Teachers' unions > United States.; Education and state > United States.; Trade unions.; Education.; Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.; Education > United States.

The American public has increasingly heard that teacher unions and quality education are contradictory terms and that unions are responsible for the failure of public schools. Many critics of the unions would cheerfully channel public funds to largely nonunion private and parochial schools as free m...